Re: McDonalds Dragons
- From: Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:27:57 +0100
On 2008-05-03 23:54:14 +0100, peterd.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pd) said:
Despite my admonitions, the grandparents took the kids to McDonalds
<hoik spit>, and they've come back with a CD in a plastic dinosaur egg.
Shows how much profit they're making on their Crappy Meal, dunnit.
Give in. This way madness lies. I've tried...
On OSX 10.3.9, after playing some stupid Flash intro, the Dragons app
stops with "Alert: Permission required."
No 10.3 install to try it on, but this is what happens to me on a 10.4.11 install.
On 10.4.11, the stupid Flash intro crashes out after a few seconds.
Odd - works fine here in the sense of no crashing, but behaves as you describe 10.3.9 to do.
On 10.5.2, I get a screen that says : OSX Leopard - version not
available.
Snap.
10 points for realising Macs exist, and knowing what the latest OS is.
Nul points for not using some non-OS-version-sensitive technology.
According to the dates on the CD, this was mastered in November 2007. In Nov 2007, there really, -really- should have been a Leopard version of what they're doing available.
Showing package contents, and firing up the embedded Flash application,
it all works as far as it did in 10.3.9, ending with the Alert:
Permission message. No clicking, command keying, whatever seems to get
past this, despite trying it in an admin account.
Ignoring the obvious requirement for the application of a big fat
clue-by-four to the GPs, what could McDorkalds be doing that a) won't
work on any version of OSX we have, and b) is worth further
investigation?
I suspect they want access to the file system or possibly even the camera, and that the Flash settings are denying it as insecure. I tried the site to see if there was a patch, nothing. I emailed - nothing.
Thing is, although I could run it under a Windows VM instead the Mac experience has put me off doing so. What level of permissions does it want that it can't get under an Admin account? And if it wants that depth of access, what would it do under Windows? I have become...suspicious.
Cheers,
Ian
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